1997 Toyota Land Cruiser 4.5l 4x4 on 2040-cars
Monroe, Washington, United States
Pretty much your standard Land Cruiser. Just in better shape than most I feel. Carfax says brakes were done at around 204,000 miles at Meineke. What I've done: New belts, Tires, 17" Toyota wheels, 1.5 inch wheel spacers all around. New wool seat covers. New floor mats. New remotes. New drivers seat belt. The old one was lazy and chaffed from getting stuck in the door. New one snaps back crisply. New shocks come with car but not installed. Always been my second car. Starts right up every time. Engine is smooth and quiet. No leaks or burning of any fluids. No overheating. No funky idling. Accelerates as it should. Shifts as it should. Brakes as it should. No rattling from inside or outside the cabin. No exhaust leaks. Transfer case works as it should. No water in oil or vive versa. Drives straight down the road with the fingertips of one hand. Cruise control works. A/C blows ice cold. Heater blows warm, dry and fresh air. HVAC fan works on all 4 speeds. Windows all go up and down. Antenna goes up and down. All doors unlock with new remotes. New remotes do not have panic button. Paint shines like few others of its age. Sunroof does not leak. Very little wear on steering wheel and shifter leather suggests (to me), its been driven mostly on the freeway. I never towed with this car. No smoke or pet odors. No excessive air released from fuel tank upon cap removal. Looking under the car, there is very little rust. really just the running board brackets have surface rust. A lift kit would be easy to install. No rusty nuts and bolts. We don't salt our roads. Can only find two small door dings after 16 years! None of the 4 rock chips in the windshield are in the drivers line of sight to the road. Just passed emissions and is licensed until 3/15. Easy, fun, and a pleasure to drive. Always titled in Washington state. I bought this from the second owner who lived in Kirkland, WA. His story was that this was the car he used while attending OSU for an engineering degree. He looked the part, and the car had some OSU swag on it. He used this info to articulate how well the car was cared for by an engineering student. First owner is a was The manufacturer, as with all cars. I just traded in my daily driver Prius for a Tacoma 4X4. Don't need this anymore. Personal items not included in sale. Camp gear, Club, cleaning products. $500 deposit within 24 hours of end of auction. Local pickup in Monroe, WA. No warranty. One pictures is an ebay stock photo I could not delete. |
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2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid
Mon, 21 Oct 2013People, us included, make a big stink about the importance of family sedans. There's no doubt they're critical - they represent a huge slice of the market's annual sales and profits. However, despite accounting for far fewer transactions than the midsize sedan segment, the fullsize sedan is getting attention from manufacturers now that our market's entire lineup of those (slightly) smaller four-doors has turned over in the last two years or so. As most of the fullsize segment's mainstays derive a fair bit of their platform and powertrain technologies from their midsize cousins, these larger four-doors offer the potential for fatter profit margins, too. And with the newly stylish duds found on many of the industry's most successful midsize sedans, it's only right that automakers no longer think about fullsizers as big, squishy, vanilla family haulers with flat seats, vague steering and a thin layer of 'luxury' in the form of faux wood trim.
As manufacturers have again started diving into large sedans feet-first, the cars themselves have become sharper. The interiors are now of a higher quality and loaded with tech, while the exteriors have become further extensions of each manufacturer's design language. There's perhaps no greater example of this than the Chevrolet Impala and Ford Taurus, two models that evolved from subpar offerings into market leaders. This segment-wide transformation happened quite quickly, whether because of coincidental timing or because manufacturers are trying to get more out of their big cars, recognizing they account for a small portion of overall sales (just 3.5 percent of the new-car market in the first half of 2013).
The 2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid is one such vehicle. We remarked on the changes to the V6 variant last year, and while we previously had a quick steer of the gas-electric hybrid, we figured the new model was worth a closer week-long look.
Toyota JPN Taxi Concept is a Japanese riff on an English classic
Wed, 20 Nov 2013As far as beasts of burden go, New York City's new - and much maligned - Nissan NV200 "Taxi of Tomorrow" isn't a bad one. It's space efficient, reasonably economical, and its simple construction should mean it's pretty robust over the long haul, too. But it lacks panache and a sense of occasion - let alone a sense of humor - three things this this Toyota JPN Taxi Concept we found at the Tokyo Motor Show has in spades.
Unfortunately, that's about all the information we have on this cheeky London-taxi-inspired showcar. Toyota hasn't provided much in the way of details, other than to proclaim that the five-seat JPN was "created with Japanese hospitality in mind" and it "aims to enliven city streets." Japan's livery landscape has long been occupied by traditional three-box sedans - models like the Toyota Crown and Nissan Cedric. The JPN Taxi at just over 171 inches would appear to offer both a tighter footprint and added whimsy, both of which are in the automaker's favor; we hear it hopes this concept will one day become the country's own version of America's yellow Crown Vic cab.
Toyota isn't providing powertrain specifications, but we like the airy feeling of the interior (Japanese cabs typically don't have cumbersome partitions between cabbie and passengers), the minimalist driver area with three screens, and the widescreen overhead video system for passengers that bookends the panoramic moonroof. Check it out in our gallery of live shots and let us know what you think in Comments.
Toyota must go to trial over unintended acceleration suits
Tue, 08 Oct 2013Toyota is surely readying its trial lawyers, as the Japanese giant is officially headed to court in a pair of cases relating to its unintended acceleration fiascos of 2009 and 2010.
In the first case, the United States Supreme Court has actually got involved in matters, ignoring an appeal from Toyota that attempted to use an arbitrator to settle its California lawsuits. The automaker will now go to trial to face owners of 2010 Prius models over an alleged defect with the anti-lock braking systems, which plaintiffs say made the cars more difficult to stop, according to Bloomberg.
The second trial is a bit more in depth, covering the case of Ida St. John, an 83-year-old from Georgia, that crashed her 2005 Camry in 2009. The accident is believed to have played a part in her death, although the suit, being filed by her grandson, doesn't actually place blame on Toyota for her death.